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The Women of the Otherworld

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I read. All the time. Way back in the long ago I picked up my first comic book. After a few months of reading 20-something pages and having to wait another month for the next 20 pages of the story, I decided to try reading a book. Simply stated, I wanted something longer, something that would occupy my time and fuel my imagination. So I headed to the nearest bookstore and bought my first novel which is well documented here: Magician Apprentice . I'm always on the lookout for new authors, writers who are interesting, great story tellers and who can fashion believable three-dimensional characters. While perusing the bookshelves at the local library, I ran across an author who's been writing more than a decade, but whom I hadn't heard of before now. I can't remember which of her books caught my attention, but after some quick research I requested her first novel from the library's, well um, library: Bitten . Cover of the paperback version I was pleasantly sur...

What If...?

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Should the Aldrin and Armstrong, of Apollo 11, not been able to return to Earth, for whatever reason, the government was ready with a nice public relations piece to console American citizens and the world. http://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/american-originals-photos/moon-disaster-1.jpg http://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/american-originals-photos/moon-disaster-2.jpg It might be heart-wrenching to discover the government didn't have complete faith in NASA's mission to the Moon, but this is what governments do, they prepare for every contingency. This one just happens to be in case of disaster.